My research focuses on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP). In particular, I have been primarily exploring the algorithm development of numerical models and related NWP applications. I participated in NOAA's Next Generation Global Prediction System (NGGPS) project, which later evolved into the Unified Forecast System (UFS) project. NOAA commemorated my contributions with a gold coin medallion and a certificate of commendation. I later joined the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and was awarded a prestigious CAS talent start-up fund and an overseas excellent young scientists fund from the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Academic Employment
2021 - Present
Professor
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2016 - 2021
Associate Research Scholar
Princeton University / Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Advisor: Shian-Jiann Lin
2013 - 2016
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Princeton University / Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Advisor: Shian-Jiann Lin
2006 - 2013
Graduate Student Research Assistant
University of Michigan
Education
2006 - 2013
University of Michigan
Ph.D., Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences
Advisor: Joyce Penner
2002 - 2006
Peking University
B.Sc., Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Advisor: Zuntao Fu
Dynamical Core DevHiring
I am interested in dynamical core development with the Low-Mach number Approximate Riemann Solver (LMARS). LMARS is explicitly tailored towards geophysical fluid motions, which are primarily non-vacuum and non-sharp-discontinuous, therefore achieves high efficiency and accuracy comparing to traditional Riemann Solvers. LMARS connects the well-developed traditional non-staggered industrial CFD applications with simulating vastly varying scales of motions in complex geophysical flows. Applications in both Earth and Jovian planets atmosphere proves the desirable performance of the LMARS-powered dynamical cores.
NWP Applications
Hiring
I am also working on various NWP related applications and products, such as weather service customizations, prediction validations, post-processing corrections. One of the most recent projects is to create a production-ready global dust-storm prediction system, which can accurately capture large-scale dust transportation processes and the detailed structures of the small-scale haboobs.
Selected Honors and Awards
China Computer Federation-Alibaba Innovative Research Fund For Young Scholars
China Computer Federation (2022）
Excellent Young Scientists Fund Program (Overseas)
National Natural Science Fund (2021)
NOAA Gold Coin Medallion and Certificate of Commendation
US National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (2021)
"For your outstanding contributions to NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and their development and accelerated implementation of NOAA's flagship Forecast System GFSv15.1, a foundation for the FV3 based Unified Forecast System"
CAS Pioneer [4*25] Talents Program - category B
Chinese Academy of Sciences (2020)
Various Top Downloaded/Cited Paper Awards
The Most Downloaded Paper Award - Progress in Earth and Planetary Science (2020)
Top Cited Article Award - Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (2018-2019)
Top Downloaded Paper Award - Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (2018-2019)
Top Downloaded Paper Award - Geophysical Research Letters (2018-2019)
Top Downloaded Paper Award - Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (2018-2019)
All credits should go to the leading authors and all my brilliant partners. I am simply fortunate to be part of these fantastic projects.
